The stupid saying "thinking outside the box" has been with us for a bit now and has been used in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons. Thinking unconventionally, I believe, is the original intended meaning. Rudy Guiliani, for example, thought "thinking outside the box" meant he should remain as New York's mayor even after his term ran out. No question, that was unconventional thinking.

It's really something to behold. America's president commenting on Southern California fires the other day. Contrary to popular opinion that started sometime in 1999 or 2000, no one I know would like to sit down and have a beer with this president. Why? Basically because he's an immature pr*ck.

When Alberto Gonzales stepped down as Attorney General I fully expected King George Junior to nominate a wingnut of significant proportion to fill Alberto's shoes. Instead, the King nominated Michael Mukasey, who, at first glance, didn't seem like your average neo-conservative attorney.

Rudy Guiliani has a foreign policy advisory group...umm...advising him on which middle eastern country he should attack should he (god forbid) be elected president....or in the remote chance that the Supreme Court selects him. You know, you can't rule that out.

Remember how those in responsible government or Knee Padding positions were never allowed to use the words...."civil war", when referring to the violence inside the American occupied territory of Iraq?

I've written for two years that the Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation ordered by the Republican President George W. Bush was purely a political order. I spoke out against the invasion of Iraq long before it took place.

Perhaps you've heard the p*ssies from the oh-so-sensitive Republican Party of P*ssies fainting and dumbfounded by what representative Pete Stark(D-CA) said on the House floor during the S-CHIP "debate".

Jay Rockefeller(Wimpass D-Sen-WV) is not much of a Democratic Senator....unless of course your concept of a Democratic Senator is one who goes along with the opposition party when it's in the majority OR the minority.

When a lame ducker president is at 24% approval rating the upside, for him, is that there are fewer and fewer supporters he needs to target. The president's cluster-lame-duckness messaging can be tailored exclusively for the tiny "culture of life" nut-group. Think: Terry Schiavo freak-show.

Glenn Beck, resident wingnut extraordinaire of CNN, had John Hagee, wingnut evangelist extraordinaire, on his normally extraordinairily wingnutty program Friday evening. The two men spoke about the signs that we are living in the Biblical "End Times". Consider the following to be The Reverend's Sunday School class this week.....

The primary reason given by this White House and it's defenders for spying on Americans without warrants has been....nine-eleven. We were told, and still are, that "everything has changed" since 9-11. If the president needed to set aside the Constitution a bit and violate some laws concerning FISA and the 4th amendment....it was because of 9-11.

It has been interesting to me to observe how the media mob, for the most part, has tried their best to portray Bill Clinton's role in his wife's campaign to be president, as a negative issue. Night after night, I have listened to the usual Knee Pad suspects go on and on about how Bill's presence in the White House with a Hillary presidency would be a bad thing that Americans just couldn't suffer.

You know how Republicans always run on tax cuts? And you know how Republicans always SAY that their tax cuts will help average American workers even though they never do? And then, of course, you know how many relatively unsophisticated voters will actually believe the lies of those tax cutting Republicans and, like, go ahead and vote for them anyway...even though doing so goes against their own interests?

As we wait for more American soldiers to be killed and wounded all at the cost of $3 billion per week, and all locked in by a "stay the course" Republican contingency in the Congress, and a legacy framing executive looking to place the Iraq burden upon the shoulders of others in 09.....let's have a bit of fun with Decider Guy's adventures with the children, shall we?

If there were the votes in the Congress for impeachment, repeated violations of the fourth amendment and FISA laws through eavesdropping on the communications of Americans without a warrant, would be the convicting charge.

Think Progress tells us about the GOP presidential candidate, Duncan Hunter, and the new galactically important bill he'll introduce in the House in response to Columbia University's sit-down with Iran's president Ahmadinajab.

What happens to a national political party that must rely on an evangelical block of American voters to win elections, when that evangelical block decides to support a third party candidate? I'll tell you after you read this....